Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin, by Anita Jarczok
Laura Frost wonders if an ambitious author’s tales of erotic adventure were sexed up by others

Laura Frost wonders if an ambitious author’s tales of erotic adventure were sexed up by others

Olivette Otele on a timely reappraisal of the decision by some French territories to remain in the republic

A study of racism, where texture ends and taste begins, an oral history of Cuba, higher education’s place, and journalism today

Polyamory could shed light on whether love is mainly biological or social, says Jane O’Grady

Neil Gregor on the various types of orchestral life under the Nazis

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

A leading authority on international trade negotiations has died

Border institution co-hosts international conference with US universities as Trump presidency begins

In a post-truth era, five academics consider strategies, from inviting laypeople into the laboratory to open vivas, to improve trust in experts

Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania deploy a host of financial and intellectual resources to help locals build richer, healthier, more inclusive cities. John Morgan reports

UK ‘naive’ to think that it could replace academic links with European industry with those from elsewhere

Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

How do you defeat Nazis and liars? Focus on the people in earshot, says eminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt